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Trader Ansem (@blknoiz06) posted on the X platform stating that currently, there are tens of billions of dollars in stablecoin funds on-chain waiting to re-enter the risk asset market. Ansem believes that in the coming weeks, market participants will gradually realize that mainstream crypto assets (Majors) do not need to reach new historical highs, and capital rotation may occur earlier.He stated that as stablecoin funds flow back into the risk asset market, the market may welcome a stronger upward trend.

According to Bloomberg, SpaceX's stock performed relatively steadily on Thursday, following the expiration of a lock-up agreement that restricted insiders from selling shares, involving the release of approximately 911.5 million shares, valued at about $100 billion based on current estimates.Trading data shows that SpaceX's stock price fluctuated within a range of less than 3% in the early morning, as the market digested the potential selling pressure from this large-scale share release. In the first 30 minutes after the market opened, the trading volume approached 93 million shares, accounting for about 40% of the total trading volume from the previous trading day.This release occurred shortly after SpaceX's first financial report was published. Previously, due to concerns from investors about the company's investment in artificial intelligence being higher than expected, SpaceX's stock price had dropped by about 14%. However, most Wall Street analysts still maintain a long-term optimistic view of the company.The market's focus includes SpaceX's future investment plans in AI, satellite internet, and mobile communications. Although facing short-term capital expenditure pressures, analysts believe that the company's leading position in rocket launches, the Starlink satellite network, and the commercial space sector remains an important factor supporting its long-term valuation.This stock release, valued at approximately $100 billion, has also become an important event for the market to test investor confidence after SpaceX's listing. The stock price did not experience significant fluctuations, indicating that the market had certain expectations regarding the liquidity release for internal shareholders.

BNB Chain and the largest AI Agent cluster infrastructure on 0G, NeoSoul, announced a strategic partnership with the privacy identity network Billions Network, aimed at humans and AI Agents. Both parties will explore how authentication can help AI Agents participate more securely in the digital market.Billions provides identity technology for users and AI Agents while protecting personal information. NeoSoul develops Agents that can observe the market and take action within user constraints. The first phase of the collaboration will explore whether the systems of both parties can connect.Both parties will also investigate how users can maintain control when Agents act independently and assess the application of related capabilities in the BNB Chain and AI Agent market.Kaelan, co-founder of NeoSoul, stated, "AI Agents have begun making decisions on behalf of users, so user control has become even more important. Through this collaboration, NeoSoul and Billions will study how to use identity technology to allow users to retain control when Agents act independently."Evin McMullen, CEO and co-founder of Billions Network, stated, "As AI Agents take on more complex tasks, users need to know who is controlling the Agents and what the Agents can do. NeoSoul has experience in autonomous market decision-making for Agents. We look forward to exploring how to make the use of Agents safer through identity technology."

After SpaceX completed its IPO last month, Solana and Hyperliquid became one of the most active venues for trading SpaceX's tokenized stocks and perpetual contracts.Both are competing for a share of the billions of dollars in perpetual contract and tokenized stock trading volume, engaging in competition around related trades.

According to Jinshi reports, Microsoft has agreed to invest billions of dollars in Mistral's European computing infrastructure to expand artificial intelligence infrastructure in Europe.

According to BBX data, yesterday the two flagship institutions on Wall Street released their Q2 2026 financial reports on the same day, forming an important institutional narrative anchor regarding AI infrastructure and digital assets. The core dynamics are as follows:The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: $GS) released its Q2 2026 financial report on July 14, with CEO David Solomon providing the strongest institutional endorsement of AI infrastructure to date during the earnings call: "AI infrastructure is in the early innings of a multi-year investment cycle," and stated that the company expects to finance most of the AI infrastructure development, driving growth in mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity issuance, and lending opportunities. This assessment highly resonates with Goldman’s ongoing positioning in the crypto ecosystem: Q1 2026 13F shows the company holds approximately $700 million in iShares Bitcoin Trust ($IBIT) positions, while simultaneously liquidating all positions in XRP ETF and Solana ETF, and increasing holdings in Circle ($CRCL), Galaxy Digital ($GLXY), and Coinbase ($COIN) stocks; the company applied to the SEC for a Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (covered call option structure) on April 14; and on June 12, completed a $75 billion fundraising as the lead underwriter for SpaceX's largest IPO in history. Solomon's "early innings" assertion is a public confirmation that Goldman views AI infrastructure investment and crypto asset allocation as part of the same long-term narrative.JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: $JPM) also released its Q2 2026 financial report on July 14. According to CoinDesk Live Updates, CEO Jamie Dimon identified the rapid construction of AI computing infrastructure as a core driver of corporate investment and financing demand during the earnings call, forming a rare cross-institutional consensus with Goldman and BofA. JPMorgan has previously maintained a cautious stance on crypto regulation, but its statements in the AI data center financing sector are becoming a foundation for its entry into adjacent crypto tracks (including loans to AI mining companies and tokenized bond underwriting). Notably, JPMorgan has previously issued multiple warnings of "time running out" during the CLARITY Act legislative process, and this financial report did not provide a new legislative timeline assessment, but the strong qualitative outlook for AI infrastructure indicates that the bank will continue to provide financing services to AI mining clients such as TeraWulf and IREN, further deepening its balance sheet exposure to the crypto ecosystem.

According to reports from Jiemian News, Kingsoft Cloud will accelerate the construction of GPU computing clusters in the second half of the year to meet the explosive growth in computing power demand from major clients. Among them, Xiaomi's demand for Kingsoft Cloud's GPU computing power has upgraded from a ten-thousand-card cluster, with the related budget significantly increasing from nearly 4 billion yuan to over 10 billion yuan. In addition, Alibaba's large model team has signed a 5-year computing power leasing contract with Kingsoft Cloud, involving more than 3,000 eight-card GPU servers. Based on the contracted price, the annualized revenue after full delivery will exceed 4 billion yuan.To meet the surging customer demand, Kingsoft Cloud's capital expenditure plan for 2026 has been raised to 15 billion yuan, with an annual revenue target of 12.5 billion to 13.5 billion yuan. It is reported that due to tight upstream supply, Kingsoft Cloud is currently only accepting long-term contracts from clients for 3 to 5 years, and some orders are facing delivery delays. Due to concerns about the risk of impairment of high-level card assets, Kingsoft Cloud is currently pausing aggressive hardware expansion, anticipating that the prices of computing hardware may reach a turning point for decline in the third quarter of this year.

According to The Block, the U.S. Department of Justice has seized a cloud computing account used by Huione Group, which is accused of laundering billions of dollars in cryptocurrency scam proceeds. Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva stated that the account constituted technical support, enabling the transfer and concealment of scam funds through Southeast Asian scam centers. This action is part of "Operation Choke Point," under which the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network had previously identified Huione Group as a primary money laundering concern.The statement claims that Huione's subsidiaries are suspected of assisting criminals in transferring funds from investment scams, cyber theft, and other illegal blockchain activities, ultimately injecting them into the legitimate banking system, with a significant amount of theft reportedly linked to North Korea. Huione's "Huione Guarantee" had previously posted advertisements for stolen credit cards, identity information, malware profits, and human trafficking services on Telegram channels. Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic pointed out that Huione launched the stablecoin USDH under financial pressure last year and developed a proprietary product line that includes a decentralized exchange, wallets, and "Huione Chain" (Xone).

According to a report by Kyodo News, the Osaka Prefectural Police arrested three men on suspicion of violating the Organized Crime Punishment Law for laundering criminal proceeds on behalf of an investment fraud gang. It is said that these three individuals exchanged approximately 14 million yen from 10 victims across six prefectures into stablecoins and other cryptocurrency assets to conceal the source of the funds.According to the Osaka Prefectural Police, these three individuals belong to "over-the-counter traders" who conduct personal cryptocurrency transactions without using trading platforms and are believed to have participated in money laundering activities amounting to billions of yen.

The AI Identity and Agent Infrastructure Project Billions has released its latest strategic roadmap, announcing a focus on advancing the infrastructure construction related to Agent commerce and Agent payments, promoting the evolution of AI Agents from information processing tools to participants in economic activities.Billions stated that as Agents begin to autonomously complete service calls, payment settlements, product purchases, and task executions, AI is gradually entering the Agent economy era. In the future, Agents will not only need identity and permission management capabilities but also the ability to participate in real commercial activities and value exchanges.Currently, Billions has launched payment-related components based on the x402 protocol, including Agent Skill, server-side extensions, and SDK. The team indicated that they will continue to expand product capabilities around Agent authentication, authorization management, payment execution, and commercial collaboration scenarios, building an infrastructure network aimed at the Agent Economy.Billions believes that the automated value exchange between Agents and between Agents and services will become the next stage of AI development, and the Agent commercial network is expected to become an important part of the future digital economy.

Due to SpaceX's market value exceeding $2.5 trillion after its IPO last week, creditors of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX may benefit from this. Before FTX's collapse in 2022, it had invested $190 million in SpaceX through a fund from the venture capital firm K5 Global. Creditor representative Sunil Kavuri stated that based on SpaceX's current market value, FTX's investment exposure in SpaceX could be worth billions of dollars. Previously, FTX's Chief Executive Officer John J. Ray III had indicated that the performance of the co-investment with K5 Global would be a key driving force in the asset recovery efforts.

NVIDIA (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang stated that NVIDIA's collaboration with SK Hynix and SK Telecom is expected to bring hundreds of billions of dollars in business opportunities to South Korea in the future.Huang mentioned that as the construction of artificial intelligence infrastructure continues to advance, and the demand for AI chips, memory, and communication technologies grows, the deep cooperation between NVIDIA and South Korean technology companies will become an important driving force for the development of South Korea's AI industry and may create significant economic value.

According to a report by Politico, a document submitted by the European Commission to member states and the European Parliament shows that the EU is assessing the possibility of incorporating the cryptocurrency industry into a unified tax system to find new sources of fiscal revenue for the 2028-2034 budget cycle.The document estimates that if a tax rate of 0.1% is applied to cryptocurrency transaction volumes, it could bring in about 3 billion to 4 billion euros in revenue for the EU each year; if capital gains from cryptocurrencies are taxed, it is expected to increase fiscal revenue by about 1 billion to 2.4 billion euros annually.However, the European Commission also pointed out that due to the still inadequate data related to the cryptocurrency industry, there is significant uncertainty in the current revenue forecasts, and the actual results may differ from the estimates.The relevant proposal is still in the evaluation stage, and to be formally implemented, it requires unanimous approval from all 27 EU member states. If progress goes smoothly, this will become one of the most important discussions on unified tax policy for the cryptocurrency industry in the EU.

According to The Information, sources revealed that BlackRock has discussed investing $5 billion to $10 billion in SpaceX's IPO next month. This massive investment targets an IPO project with a fundraising goal of up to $75 billion, representing the world's largest asset management company's vote of confidence in Musk's enterprise.This investment also reflects that despite SpaceX pursuing an extremely high valuation and planning to give investors almost no power to challenge management decisions, the market will still participate in this historically largest IPO.